4 Roxy’s Reaction

Four Roxy's reaction. ROXY GLARED AT HARRIS, shaking her head. "Harris! We always do our costumes together!"

"I'm really sorry, Roxy," Harris said. He removed his robot head. "I was just teaching Zeke about Halloween, since they don't have it on Tragas. Then I told him about the costume contest, and he helped me with my costume, so I—uh—helped him with his, and this just kind of happened."

I wish I could tell her about Zeke, but I can't. I promised. "You know, it's not very nice of you to leave me out," Roxy continued. "I'm happy that you and Zeke have become friends." "Me too," said Zeke, turning two of his five eyeballs toward Roxy. "But where does that leave me?" she asked.

"What do you mean?" Harris asked, starting to feel a bit ridiculous having a serious conversation while still in his robot costume. "We're still friends, Roxy. Just because I'm friends with Zeke doesn't mean we're not still friends." "You two go to camp together, you make your costumes together, when you know we always do that together." "Yeah, but—"

But Roxy wasn't finished. "And don't forget, Harris," she continued, "that I was the one who was friendly to Zeke first. I had to convince you to be friends with him. You were too busy trying to prove that he was an alien." Harris and Zeke remained silent. She's not really wrong about any of this, Harris thought. Even if I was right about Zeke!

"I'm sorry, Roxy," Harris said. "I really am. I didn't think." Roxy walked toward the door. She stopped, turned back, and looked at Zeke. "Nice alien costume, Zeke," she said. "You better watch out or Harris might turn you in for being a real alien." Then she turned and left.